From Australia:
"New research has found public transport fares have not been a decisive factor in pushing people to shift from car to public transport."
"Better public transport access, coverage, reliability, and travel time have a greater impact than price in changing long-term commuting habits."
Normally it is the other way round - people in Ontario complaining about being called part of eastern Canada by people in BC and Alberta
Canada is spending a lot more to build its River class destroyers than the British are for their Type 26 frigates even though they are both the same basic design since Canada has not built a major warship in 30 years while the UK has been relatively continuously
The Arleigh Burkes are somewhat victims of their own success in that the USN has built so many of them that their per unit costs are so low that it is hard for any modern design to compete.
The British, for example, have a bad habit of building fewer of a class than they originally planned, even though additional units would be the cheapest class members to build.
In terms of construction costs the two major factors are the size of a class of ships and whether you have to (re)create the ability to build warships. The more ships of a given design you build, the more you spread the up front design and tooling costs.
I would put forward Vancouver as competition. Not only do you have its harbour but you also have the North Shore Mountains right across it from downtown.
The Irish do have a long history of fighting in other people's armies
How much work would it be to include population centres as a supported geographic level in cancensus?
My guess is drivers will see little of the tax cut; instead this is a loss of revenue for the government and a revenue gain for the oil industry (which is not doing too badly right now)
Not an economist but I am not sure making fuel cheaper when there is a supply shock is the best idea.
It is the United States that is out of step with the rest of the world in its usage of 'liberal'.
There is also the time it will take global shipping to recover from all of this - tankers diverted elsewhere will have to return to the Gulf and then there will be a substantial lag from when oil production restarts in the Gulf to when refined product arrives at the end user.
At least of the strategy games I have played the naval aspects are generally underdeveloped.
The issue is larger than the current administration though. We had 25-30 years after the end of the cold war and through the war on terror where naval affairs have not been a real issue.
I might be biased as someone interested in things maritime and naval, but it seems to me one of the causes for the current mess in the Strait of Hormuz is a lack of people who understand much about navies and commercial shipping at and near positions of power.
Even if shipping starts moving through the Strait of Hormuz tomorrow at prewar levels - a big if - it will take months to clear the shipping backlog and to restart production of shuttered wells and production facilities in the Gulf.
Iran does have railway connections to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan but there is a change of gauge when crossing into the former Soviet states. From Turkmenistan there is a rail connection to China via Kazakhstan.
A bit of crude oil does get moved internationally by rail - for example only about 2% of Canada's exports are by train. It is more efficient than trucking it but you still need about 1500 car loads to move one tanker worth of crude.
Good, perhaps slightly prophetic bit from @bretdevereaux.bsky.social in 2024 about how fascist regimes tend to engage in catastrophic wars of choice.
Fortunately it is of no relevance at all today.
BC Ferries suggests people take public transit and walk on as they deal with mechanical issues this long weekend. Unfortunately, the BC NDP cut BC Transit funding which was mostly taken from their extra hours budget, so they can't run extra buses to make up for the increased walk on passengers. #yyj
A year ago, BC Ferries was only allowed to buy 4 replacement vessels, instead of the 5 they asked for so they would be able to expand capacity. Issues on busy travel days is going to be a reality for decades to come.
Write your MLA to unfreeze transit funding! actionnetwork.org/letters/unfr... #yyj
Yes
I need worry about locking my bike up (no bike share here yet) and for longer trips I do not want to be on the bike that long.
Why is that apartment in Etobicoke helping fund the Spadina subway extension, library branches across the city, affordable housing, shelters, and long-term care?
(because it’s easier to tax new housing than to raise everybody else’s taxes, that’s why.)
Belgium and Switzerland are small countries and it is much easier to go to a neighbouring country that speaks a different language in Europe.
I wonder if Canada suffers from its geographic extent. Here in BC I am unlikely to encounter a francophone who is not bilingual (and more likely to meet someone whose first language is Mandarin or Punjabi than French) and I would have to fly for hours to reach a majority francophone area.
The thought of unit train quantities of antimatter is more than a bit terrifying
An explosion while building a tunnel that killed 26 workers does sound like something that happened while building the railway through the BC mountains.
Reading this after your last repost I initially thought you were talking about the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway
The Bus is coming